Daily News on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Virginia Union University has begun offering the first Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program in Virginia. The program began in the spring semester of 2012 and is being held at the City of Richmond Jail, bringing traditional college students and incarcerated men and women together to learn as peers in the same class room. The Inside-Out model [...]
The Saint Augustine’s College Community Development Corporation yesterday dedicated its Cooke Street Extension Project, the first phase in the construction of 15 single-family houses in the area. A joint project between Saint Augustine’s, the city of Raleigh, Housing and Urban Development, Downtown Housing Improvement Corporation, and several banks, the project is funded by a $498,682 [...]
Students from Lane College yesterday marched for peace and drew attention to concerns about violence on and around campus.
Nearly half an hour after Justin Clark, a man who was shot in the head yesterday on the Lane College campus was pronounced dead, more than 200 Lane students were in the streets bordering the college, demanding an end to violence and safety for their campus. The students blocked traffic on a mile-and-a-half march to [...]
More than 400 teenage girls from the Washington-Metropolitan area are expected at Howard University tomorrow morning for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc’s 20th Annual Woman to Woman Conference. Actress Tatyana Ali will serve as keynote speaker for the event. Past headliners included the Dorothy Height, president emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women and [...]
The Langston University Marching Pride Band will tour several historically black communities throughout Oklahoma this February, in honor of Black History Month. Ardmore, Boley and Muskogee are among the towns on the band’s “Tracing Our Roots” tour. Officials say “Tracing Our Roots: Oklahoma’s Historically Black Towns Tour” will kick off on Saturday at the Oklahoma [...]
Vocal jazz ensemble Afro Blue and legendary poet/ activist Amiri Baraka will perform at Eternal Voices, a fundraising event, hosted by the Students of Howard University Global Relief Fund, to help alleviate starvation in Somalia. The event will take place in Cramton Auditorium at Howard University, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. The evening is a [...]
Fayetteville State University (FSU) Director of Government and Community Affairs, Emily M. Dickens, has been elected chairperson of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Community Development Action Coalition (HBCU CDAC). HBCU CDAC is a national association that promotes, supports, and advocates for historically black colleges and minority serving institutions (MSIs), community development corporations (CDCs), and [...]
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Albany State Presents Former Coca-Cola Executive Adrienne Johnson
Morehouse Health Educators Present... Morehouse > AIDS Day
The Musicianship Presents: Howard's Afro Blue
Fisk Jubilee Singers at the Annual African American Music Gala